Patrizia La Fonte

Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno (1984)

During the reign of King Alboin, the peasant Bertoldo, sly and smart, manages to always get away with pranks and pleasantires with great mastery, and, even if his clumsy wife Marcolfa and their foolish son Bertoldino always put him in trouble, his shrewdness and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mario Monicelli
CAST:  Ugo Tognazzi  •  Maurizio Nichetti  •  Alberto Sordi  •  Lello Arena

During the reign of King Alboin, the peasant Bertoldo, sly and smart, manages to always get away with pranks and pleasantires with great mastery, and, even if his clumsy wife Marcolfa and their foolish son Bertoldino always put him in trouble, his shrewdness and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mario Monicelli
CAST:  Ugo Tognazzi  •  Maurizio Nichetti  •  Alberto Sordi  •  Lello Arena

The Rogues (1987)

The adventures of a couple of scoundrels in the Spain of the 16th century.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mario Monicelli
CAST:  Giancarlo Giannini  •  Enrico Montesano  •  Vittorio Gassman  •  Giuliana De Sio

The adventures of a couple of scoundrels in the Spain of the 16th century.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mario Monicelli
CAST:  Giancarlo Giannini  •  Enrico Montesano  •  Vittorio Gassman  •  Giuliana De Sio

Red Like the Sky (2006)

A nearly sightless boy is sent to a school for blind children, where he secretly discovers the possibilities of the recorded sound.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Cristiano Bortone
CAST:  Luca Capriotti  •  Paolo Sassanelli  •  Marco Cocci  •  Francesco Campobasso

A nearly sightless boy is sent to a school for blind children, where he secretly discovers the possibilities of the recorded sound.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Cristiano Bortone
CAST:  Luca Capriotti  •  Paolo Sassanelli  •  Marco Cocci  •  Francesco Campobasso

Dark Illness (1990)

After his father's death, a middle-aged screenwriter struggles with his obsessions and neuroses.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mario Monicelli
CAST:  Giancarlo Giannini  •  Emmanuelle Seigner  •  Vittorio Caprioli  •  Stefania Sandrelli

After his father's death, a middle-aged screenwriter struggles with his obsessions and neuroses.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mario Monicelli
CAST:  Giancarlo Giannini  •  Emmanuelle Seigner  •  Vittorio Caprioli  •  Stefania Sandrelli

Rorret (1988)

Mr. Rorret is the owner of a cinema called "The Peeping Tom" which shows a constant stream of horror films. Rorret dates women from the audience and then kills them, taking sadistic pleasure from their expressions of terror. This film is apparently a well-filmed ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Fulvio Wetzl
CAST:  Lou Castel  •  Anna Galiena  •  Massimo Venturiello  •  Enrica Rosso

Mr. Rorret is the owner of a cinema called "The Peeping Tom" which shows a constant stream of horror films. Rorret dates women from the audience and then kills them, taking sadistic pleasure from their expressions of terror. This film is apparently a well-filmed ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Fulvio Wetzl
CAST:  Lou Castel  •  Anna Galiena  •  Massimo Venturiello  •  Enrica Rosso

Liebeskonzil (1982)

Oskar Panizza’s The Council of Love (1895) is a blasphemous play set in 1495, during the first recorded outbreak of syphilis, which Panizza satirically presents as the punishment from Satan for sexually active humans. As a result, Panizza was imprisoned for ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Werner Schroeter
CAST:  Antonio Salines  •  Magdalena Montezuma  •  Kurt Raab  •  Renzo Rinaldi

Oskar Panizza’s The Council of Love (1895) is a blasphemous play set in 1495, during the first recorded outbreak of syphilis, which Panizza satirically presents as the punishment from Satan for sexually active humans. As a result, Panizza was imprisoned for ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Werner Schroeter
CAST:  Antonio Salines  •  Magdalena Montezuma  •  Kurt Raab  •  Renzo Rinaldi

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DIRECTION:  Dario D'Ambrosi
CAST:  Greta Scacchi  •  Nicolas Vaporidis  •  Luca Calvani  •  Giorgio Colangeli

Sacred Heart (2005)

Irene, a workaholic, is forced to re-evaluate her priorities after the suicide of her two best friends.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ferzan Özpetek
CAST:  Barbora Bobuľová  •  Andrea Di Stefano  •  Lisa Gastoni  •  Massimo Poggio

Irene, a workaholic, is forced to re-evaluate her priorities after the suicide of her two best friends.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ferzan Özpetek
CAST:  Barbora Bobuľová  •  Andrea Di Stefano  •  Lisa Gastoni  •  Massimo Poggio

Quasi orfano (2022)

Valentino Tarocco invents a new life as a famous Milanese designer. He has removed all connection with the past, but an accident will bring him back to his twenties, causing him to recover his Apulian dialect and love for his origins.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Umberto Riccioni Carteni
CAST:  Riccardo Scamarcio  •  Vittoria Puccini  •  Antonio Gerardi  •  Grazia Schiavo

Valentino Tarocco invents a new life as a famous Milanese designer. He has removed all connection with the past, but an accident will bring him back to his twenties, causing him to recover his Apulian dialect and love for his origins.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Umberto Riccioni Carteni
CAST:  Riccardo Scamarcio  •  Vittoria Puccini  •  Antonio Gerardi  •  Grazia Schiavo

La donna del mare (1984)

Married to a doctor and mother of two daughters, a woman continually rethinks her relationship with a sailor.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sergio Pastore
CAST:  Giovanna Lenzi  •  George Ardisson  •  Pascal Persiano  •  Victor Vidmark

Married to a doctor and mother of two daughters, a woman continually rethinks her relationship with a sailor.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sergio Pastore
CAST:  Giovanna Lenzi  •  George Ardisson  •  Pascal Persiano  •  Victor Vidmark

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DIRECTION:  Antonio Salines  •  Bruno Rasia
CAST:  Antonio Salines  •  Elio Bertolotti  •  Renzo Rossi  •  Francesco Capitano